New Chief Justice of India NV Ramana lodged a police complaint on Monday (April 26) after a Twitter account bearing his name was found posting fake messages on the social media platform, NDTV reported.
Justice Ramana was sworn in on Saturday (April 24), and he does not have accounts in twitter or any other social media, reports said.
The fake Twitter handle was operational under the name-@NVRamanna. The handle had more than 5800 followers. It has now been deleted but 98 tweets were sent out since its inception, which is shown as May 2020.
The last activity from the account was shown to be 10 hours ago when the user retweeted news agency ANI’s tweet on Burj Khalifa lighting up with Indian Tricolor to show support to the country amid the prevailing Covid-19 situation.
The account is reported to also have tweeted appreciation of national security advisor Ajit Doval after the US agreed to ‘immediately’ help India with essential medical supplies, especially with the raw material to boost Covishield vaccine production in the country.
The tweet was later deleted. “Due to Ajit Doval’s diplomacy, the US decided to supply raw materials to India #vaccination @PMOIndia,” the deleted tweet read, according to NDTV.
The reference was to a late Sunday night announcement from the United States.
President Joe Biden said he would “immediately” make available sources of raw materials required to scale up production of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine.
